How to enable CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

[Reindl Harald]

really nice, after some investigation: why not using ALT+PRINT+K

the only problem i see is that there are combinations
open no one would really like (B without S)

R,E,I,S,U,B = nice but "Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring"
for non-english peopole not helpful and if you use the wrong
order you have a problem

Am 06.07.2011 23:37, schrieb Daniele Guerrieri:
> And what do you think about enabling sysrq in sysctl.conf? i've done
> it on my system,and when X freezes i just have to enter the rescue
> mode with alt-print followed by R I , and init respawns gdm.
> 
> Daniele
> 
> 2011/7/6, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr at redhat.com>:
>> On 07/06/2011 05:29 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>> On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:16:46 +0100
>>> Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>>>
>>>> This should already be set up by the default
>>>> 00-system-setup-keyboard.conf. This
>>>> is the case on my system:
>>>
>>> That is apparently a recent change. I know for sure that Ctrl-Alt-Bksp
>>> disappeared for a while in the default fedora config, but it does seem
>>
>> Heh - turns out my testing was broken :)
>>
>> The 00-system-setup-keyboard.conf change has been there all along in f15
>> (timestamp on my system is back in April when I first installed this box
>> from
>> alpha and doesn't seem to have been updated since).
>>
>>> to be back in fedora 15 at least. Not sure when it reappeared as being
>>> enabled by default, but if you google the fedora users list, you should
>>> be able to find many outraged emails from when it first disappeared a
>>> few releases ago. You can even find all the folks explaining why it
>>
>> Yep, I was there at the time.. adding the config option back in for users
>> who
>> wanted it just never seemed like such a big deal to me..
>>
>>> obviously should go away and it was always stupid to have it (which makes
>>> me wonder why it came back :-).
>>
>> I assumed when I installed f15 alpha for the first time it was to make life
>> easier testing gnome-shell - I had a few occasions when I needed it during
>> alpha/beta and it was on by default.
>>
>> When Reindl first asked I assumed something had changed in post-GA f15 - I
>> re-tested and it didn't seem to work - I added DontZap false, checked again
>> and
>> it was working.
>>
>> Problem is my testing was flawed - the first time I tried it (when it
>> appeared
>> not to work) I was using synergy from another machine. After restarting X
>> with
>> DontZap I tested from the physical keyboard.. It turns out that
>> ctrl-alt-delete
>> appears to get filtered out somewhere when it's coming from a remote synergy
>> client.
>>
>> Reverting everything back to how it was originally and zap is definitely on
>> by
>> default in f15 (via XKB)

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